Thanks for all the nice reviews :) . I really appreciate them and now I feel a bit less self conscious about writing. The demonic gerbils in my head (there are three) say to tell you their names are Charley, Jack, and Grandma Sniffles (don't ask, she wanted to be different). Anyway, here's my new chapter of Gaara's Therapy, please enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Larry the cucumber or any of Big Ideas Productions Veggie Tales (But we all love them and secretly dream of marrying a cucumber.) Disclaimer Part 2: I had some help with the 'I Love My Shukaku' song idea from my sortof-sister, sand-nin-girl.

Gaara's Therapy

Chapter Two: I Love My Shukaku

"So... tell me about your childhood," Shikamaru said imperiously. Gaara answered in his best Larry the cucumber voice and Shikamaru in his imperious Alfred the asparagus voice (singing to 'I Love My Lips')

Gaara; " When I was just two years old, I left Shukaku out in the cold, and he turned blue. What could I do?"

" He turned blue. What could you do?"

"He turned blue. On the day that I turned eight, I got my gourd stuck in a gate. The village all laughed. So I called the Chuunin and Kankurou had to come and pull me out and the gourd was crushed so I had to search the desert for another one, but until then I had to carry my sand in one of Temari's bras." (Song ends.)

"Very interesting," said Shikamaru while doodling something on his notepad that looked suspiciously like a gerbil ( Me: "Are you gerbils two timing me with Shikamaru?" Charley, Jack, and Grandma Sniffles innocently: "No. Of course not. You are our only slave... we mean..uh.. master. Now, when you finish this chapter, please go take over the world as we know it and liberate all the captive gerbils!" ) " Okay. Now, Gaara, it sounds like you are very attached to Shukaku. Could you be using him as a sort of 'security blanket' to shield yourself from your own actions?" Shikamaru tried his latest theory, but Gaara however seemed nonplused. "Well Shukaku is kind of inside me so I guess he's attached... But I don't have a security blanket, those are for babies, but I do have a teddy bear... Kankurou says those are for big boys like me and he has Karasu which he says isn't a doll but I think differently..." Gaara stopped when he noticed Shikamaru was asleep in his chair.

"SHIKAMARU!" he yelled. "Huh? What?" Shikamaru said, jumping and falling out of the chair. It was obvious that he was still disoriented from being suddenly awakened when he said slightly irritated; "No, Gaara. What I meant was I think you are using Shukaku as an excuse not to feel guilty for what you do." "Oh. I get it," Gaara said proudly. "But I really don't feel guilty for what I did." "You don't? Not even sorry for those you squished and their families who lost a loved one? What about the people you hurt? Don't you care about them?!!!??" Shikamaru began to get frustrated. Gaara answered in his best Samara voice (the creepy little girl who kills people on The Ring). "But I do care, and I'm sorry," he said softly. "It won't stop." "What won't stop, Samara... I mean, Gaara?" Shikamaru asked. He regretted this as soon as Gaara began to look up in that slow way Samara did before she killed people. He had seen that movie and he didn't want to end up dead with his eyes up in his head the way Samara's victims looked. At that moment Gaara looked up. All that was heard was one word and that one word was what cut through all the dramatic tension that I am putting into this chapter...

Well, I'm going to be extra evil and leave you with a cliffhanger so you will read my next chapter... and if you don't review, I will make you all wait a really really really long time before I post the next chapter Muahahahahaha cough cough!!!!!

turns and begins to walk away apparently talking to self "There, I did what you guys told me to do and left them hanging."...(in one of those creepy possessed voices) "Good, now go take over the world and free the gerbils!" (regular voice) "Can I get a snack first?" (Possessed) "No! Now do as we say!" (Regular) "you know you guys are so mean!"

walks out of sight still arguing with self